Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Exchange

Lumpkin, Justice.

1, 2. The decision of this court in the case at bar was made in point of time earlier than that rendered in the case of the Central Railroad & Banking Company v. Hasselkus & Stewart (this term), but the opinion in the latter case, delivered by Justice Simmons, having already been filed, is here cited as establishing what constitutes a through contract of shipment by a common carrier undertaking to transport goods beyond the terminus of its own line. The opinion referred to and the cases therein cited render unnecessary a further discussion at this time of the question…